On January 29 1834, Andrew Jackson becomes the first president to use federal troops to quell labor unrest. Workers building the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal were rebelling...
On January 28 2016, The U.S. State Department angrily accuses the Soviet Union of shooting down an American jet that strayed into East German airspace. Three...
On January 26 1500, Spanish explorer Vicente Yanez Pinzon, Discovered Brazil. He had commanded the Nina during Christopher Columbus’ first expedition to the New World, reaches the...
On 25th January, 1981, Jiang Qing, the widow of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death for her “counter-revolutionary crimes” during the Cultural Revolution.
On 24th January 1939, An 8.3-magnitude earthquake centered in south central Chile leaves 50,000 people dead and 60,000 injured. The disaster came just 33 years after...
On 23rd January 1556, an earthquake in Shaanxi, China, kills an estimated 830,000 people. Counting casualties is often imprecise after large-scale disasters, especially prior to the 20th...
On 22nd January 1973, a plane returning Muslim pilgrims from Mecca crashes in Kano, Nigeria, killing 176 people. It was the deadliest air disaster of its...
After more than seven decades as the world’s largest automaker, General Motors (GM) officially loses the title on January 21, 2009, when it announces worldwide sales...
On January 18, 1778, the English explorer Captain James Cook becomes the first European to discover the Hawaiian Islands when he sails past the island of...
On 17th January 1994 Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state clerk, files suit against President Bill Clinton in the federal court in Little Rock, Arkansas for...